TRUMP EMBRACES THE PLO FANTASY

If he doesn’t get it
back soon, he will fail to make America great again or safe again in the
Middle East.

After holding out for a month, last week Trump indicated he is adopting his predecessors’ obsession with empowering the PLO.

This is a strategic error.

There are many actors and conflicts in the Middle East that challenge
and threaten US national interests and US national security. Iran’s rise
as a nuclear power and regional hegemon; the war in Syria; Turkey’s
abandonment of the West; and Russia’s regional power play all pose major
threats to US power, security and interests. The Muslim Brotherhood,
Islamic State, Hamas and other Sunni jihadist movements all threaten the
US, Europe and the US’s Sunni allies in the region in a manner that is
strategically significant to America.

None of these issues, none of these actors and none of these threats
are in any way related to or caused by the PLO and its interminable,
European-supported hybrid terror and political war against Israel. None
of these pressing concerns will be advanced by a US embrace of the PLO
or a renewed obsession with empowering the PLO and its mafia-terrorist
bosses.

To the contrary, all of these pressing concerns will be sidelined – and
so made more pressing and dangerous – by a US reengagement with the PLO
.

And yet, over the past week, Trump has indicated that the PLO is now his focus.

Last Friday, Trump spoke on the telephone with Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas is
head of the PLO and the unelected dictator of the corrupt,
terrorism-sponsoring, PLO -controlled Palestinian Authority in Judea and
Samaria.

According to media reports, Trump told Abbas – whose legal term in
office ended eight years ago – that he views him as a legitimate leader.
According to the official White House report of the conversation, Trump
also reportedly told Abbas that he supports reaching a deal between
Israel and the Palestinians. Such a deal, to the extent it is ever
reached, involves expanding PLO control over Judea and Samaria and parts
of Jerusalem at Israel’s expense.

Trump also invited Abbas for an official visit to Washington. And the
day after they spoke, the Trump administration moved $250 million in US
taxpayer dollars to Abbas’s police state where for the past 25 years,
Abbas and his cronies have enriched themselves while feeding a steady
diet of antisemitic, anti-American jihadist bile to their impoverished
subjects.

To build up his credibility with the PLO , Trump put his electoral
pledge to move the US embassy to Jerusalem on ice. The real estate mogul
ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deny Jews the right to
their property and their legal right to use state lands in Judea and
Samaria.

And swift on the heels of that conversation with Abbas, Trump’s chief
negotiator Jason Greenblatt was dispatched to Jerusalem to begin
empowering the PLO at Israel’s expense.

According to media reports, Greenblatt intended to use his meeting
Monday with Netanyahu was to reject Netanyahu’s commitment to build a
new Israeli town in Samaria. Greenblatt was also reportedly intending to
dictate the parameters for yet another round of negotiations with the
PLO.

After meeting with Netanyahu, Greenblatt continued on to Ramallah to embrace Abbas.

Also during his stay, Greenblatt is scheduled to meet with IDF generals
who are responsible for giving money and providing services to the PLO.

And Greenblatt doesn’t have the Palestinians to himself.

Following Trump’s conversation with Abbas, plans were suddenly afloat
for Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and Trump’s
daughter Ivanka Trump to visit Israel and spend an afternoon with Abbas
in Ramallah.

If things develop as reported, then Trump is serious about embracing
the PLO and intends to have his top advisers devote themselves to Abbas
and his henchmen. If that is the case, then Trump is setting himself,
his advisers, his daughter and the US up to fail and be humiliated.

The PLO is the Siren that drowns US administrations. It is to the PLO
that America’s top envoys have eagerly flown, gotten hooked on the
attention of the demented, anti-Israel press corps, and forgotten their
purpose: to advance US national interests.

If Trump is serious about repeating this practice, then rather than
repair the massive damage done to the US and the Middle East by his two
predecessors, the 45th president will repeat their mistakes. Like them,
he will leave office in a blaze of failure.

To understand why this is the case, three things must be clear.

First, the PLO will never make peace with Israel. There will never be a Palestinian state.

There will never be a peace or a Palestinian state because the PLO
wants neither. This is the lesson of the past 25 years. Both Abbas and
his predecessor Arafat rejected peace and statehood multiple times and
opted instead to expand their terrorist and political war against
Israel.

Why did they do that? Because they are interested in two things:
personal enrichment – which they achieve by stealing donor funds and
emptying the pockets of their own people; and weakening, with the goal
of destroying Israel – which they achieve through their hybrid war of
terrorism and political warfare.

The second thing that needs to be clear is that the Palestinians are
irrelevant to the rest of the problems – the real problems that impact
US interests – in the region. If anything, the Palestinians are pawns on
the larger chessboard. America’s enemies use them to distract the
Americans from the larger realities so that the US will not pay
attention to the real game.

Iran will not be appeased or defeated if Trump empowers the PLO in its
war against Israel and continues feeding PLO leaders’ insatiable
appetite for other people’s money.

The Sunni jihadists will not beat their swords into plowshares if the
US coerces Israel to cough up land to the PLO . To the contrary, they
will be emboldened.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not move his forces out of Syria
or stop giving nuclear technologies to Iran if the US turns the screws
on Israel. Putin will come to the conclusion that Trump is either weak
or stupid to damage Israel, the US’s most serious ally.

And of course, Israel will not be better off if Trump decides to push
it back onto the peace train which has caused it nothing but harm for
the past quarter century.

Trump’s election opened up the possibility, for the first time in
decades, that the US would end its destructive obsession with the PLO.
For three months, Israelis have been free for the first time to discuss
seriously the possibilities of applying Israeli law to all or parts of
Judea and Samaria. And a massive majority of Israelis support doing just
that.

On the Palestinian side as well, Trump’s election empowered the people
who have been living under the jackboot of Abbas and his cronies to
think about the possibility of living at peace with Israel in a post-PLO
era. Polling results indicate that they too are eager to move beyond
the Palestinian statehood chimera.

But now, it appears that Trump has been convinced to embrace the PLO
obsession. The same entrenched bureaucrats at the State Department and
the same foreign policy establishment in Washington that brought the US
nothing but failure in the Middle East for a generation appear to have
captivated Trump’s foreign policy. They have convinced him it is better
to devote his top advisers to repeating the mistakes of his predecessors
than to devote his energies and theirs to fixing the mess that Obama
and George W. Bush left him with. They have gotten him to believe that
it is better to empower the PLO than develop coherent strategies and
plans for dealing with the problems of the region that actually endanger
US interests and imperil the security and safety of the American
people.

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